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CrowdRoaming, the app that cuts your overseas data roaming costs to zero 27 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Crowdroaming International travel has become easier (and cheaper) than ever — flights can go for under €50, accommodation platforms, such as CouchSurfing, offer more affordable places to stay and tra...
After soaking up $1.4B of investment, Fisker might sell for just $25M 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
VentureBeat A Fisker Karma. Hands up all those of you who’d forgotten that Fisker Automotive still exists? The company might not have produced a car in over a year, but the struggling firm is still...
Sony launches two new cameras for fans of DSLR-style gadgets 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Sony Electronics Sony Alpha 3000 camera Camera fans have split into two groups. As they trade up from point-and-shoot cameras, some like the new, smaller mirrorless models. But many also like the bu...
Dell unveils new series of Latitude touchscreen laptops for business users 27 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Dell Dell Latitude 3000 series Dell is introducing a series of new laptops today aimed at making business computing into a more pleasant, reliable, and secure experience. Dell Dell Latitude 7000 s...
Forget primetime TV: Neptune is live on the Web tonight 27 Aug 2013 | 06:56 am
NASA Image of Neptune captured by Voyager 2 in 1989. Neptune is a giant, gassy, blue planet floating in the deep reaches of our solar system. This week, it reaches opposition: Meaning it is directl...
Parse.ly nabs $5 million to continue getting you to click on Grumpy Cat 27 Aug 2013 | 06:31 am
Parse.ly Parse.ly's traffic dashboard lets you see what stories are peaking on your site. In the race for pageviews, knowledge can be a dangerous thing. On the one hand, editors like me love having ...
Inigral is now Uversity, a tool for high school students to pick the right college 27 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
The Uversity team Education technology startup Inigral has rebranded to Uversity, a name its customers will have far less trouble pronouncing. Inigral was best known for its Schools app, which stude...
700K of the 1.2M apps available for iPhone, Android, and Windows are zombies 27 Aug 2013 | 04:18 am
Scott Beale Sixty percent of the 617,436 apps on Apple’s app store have never been updated and have fewer than 10 reviews. Forty-one percent of the 484,271 apps on Google Play are in the same boat, a...
Starling helps non-English speaking patients get heard in hospitals 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Facebook Starling Bill Tan arrived in America when he was 15 years old. He knew just 500 words of English, but this was 500 more than his anyone else in his family. The experience inspired him to fou...
How Google designed its wearable Glass gadget (and why) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:21 am
Dean Takahashi Babak Parviz PALO ALTO — Calif. Babak Parviz, one of the creators of Google Glass wearable headsets at Google, told an audience at Stanford University why his company embarked on the ...
